Sentences with phrase «known terrestrial animals»

«Our results show the ancestor of land plants was alive in the middle Cambrian Period, which was similar to the age for the first known terrestrial animals,» said co-lead author Mark Puttick from the University of Bristol in the statement.

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42 %: terrestrial animal and plant species with known trends that have declined in population size the last decade

Therapsids roamed the Earth and dominated terrestrial ecosystems well before dinosaurs and are known from all continents in the world, but South Africa has by far the most diverse and long - ranging record of this important group of animals.

Furthermore, the motion of a bone in the fishes» throat, known as the hyoid, closely resembles that of other terrestrial animals, especially newts, which use true tongues to eat.

«We now know a fair amount about the terrestrial animals and plants that were living in the Eocene Arctic greenhouse period,» said Eberle.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

While all the dinosaurs we know of were terrestrial animals, they were occasionally washed out to sea by floods.

It is also thought to have had the largest bite forces of all terrestrial animals — but until now scientists did not know just how strong its huge jaws were.

Eighty percent of the world's known terrestrial plant and animal species can be found in forests, and tropical rainforests are home to more species than any other terrestrial habitat.